LME nickel closed down $135 at $15,115/ton yesterday; SHFE nickel futures closed down 280 yuan at 120,620 yuan/ton last night. On the macro front, regarding Sino-foreign relations, US Treasury Secretary Bessenter stated that if China continues to block rare earth exports, the US may impose additional tariffs on China. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded that the results of the China-US trade consultations in Kuala Lumpur fully demonstrate that dialogue and cooperation a

This year, similar transaction security incidents have repeatedly sounded the alarm for the stainless steel industry. Whenever this topic is discussed, practitioners feel a sense of unease. In a fiercely competitive environment, maintaining business often requires relaxing transaction conditions; however, as the threshold is lowered, the risks quietly rise. The era when a transaction could be completed with a single phone call is long gone. Today, the industry repeatedly emph

According to foreign media reports on November 3, 2025, the most severe challenge currently facing the stainless steel industry may no longer be short-term price fluctuations, but rather increasingly stringent global trade restrictions driven by geopolitics. This view became a general consensus among industry leaders at the Bureau of Recycling International (BIR) World Recycling Conference held in Bangkok, Thailand, from October 27-28, 2025. Experts at the conference pointed

According to Indian media reports on November 2, 2025, India's stainless steel industry faces the challenge of severely underutilized capacity. Industry data shows that the country's total installed capacity for stainless steel is 7.5 million tons, but the current capacity utilization rate is only around 60%. To address this situation, Indian domestic stainless steel companies are actively urging the government to introduce more targeted measures to restrict the impact of imp

Stainless steel futures prices traded weakly this week. The meeting between Chinese and US leaders, the release of the 15th Five-Year Plan recommendations, and the Fed's rate cut provided some emotional support to the market, but due to the current weak fundamentals, market confidence remains low. Stainless steel futures prices dipped again this week, with trading volume remaining largely unchanged from last week, while open interest decreased significantly, indicating a grow

According to Taiwanese media reports on November 1, 2025, a new round of price competition has emerged in the Asia-Pacific stainless steel export market. Leveraging its significant cost advantage, Chinese mainland-produced bonded stainless steel is becoming an important pricing benchmark in the regional market, while Southeast Asia's continued low-price strategy is significantly squeezing export orders from Taiwan. Entering the fourth quarter, while stainless steel export inq

1.     TISCO Sets Another World Record in Nickel Alloy Production TISCO has once again raised the global benchmark in high-end nickel alloy manufacturing. On October 9, the company announced the stable mass production of N10276 nickel-based alloy hot-rolled coils, with each coil weighing over 14 tons, the largest of its kind in the world. Following its record-breaking N06625 super alloy coils in late 2024, TISCO continues to solidify its dominance in corrosion-resistant, high

When Trade Becomes a Battlefield In a move that echoes through the stainless steel corridors of Southeast Asia, Thailand’s Department of Anti-Dumping and Countervailing Duties has officially announced a decisive verdict: Vietnam’s cold-rolled stainless steel products are now subject to anti-dumping duties for five years . The ruling, issued on October 14, 2025 , concluded that Vietnamese exporters had engaged in dumping practices that inflicted “material injury” upon Thailand

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Today, the Chinese stainless steel market has fully resumed operations, and market prices have increased by approximately USD $15 per...

India's Ministry of Commerce and Industry has launched a new anti-dumping investigation into imports of 300-series and 400-series...

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By Industry Analyst A recent development in Taiwan's stainless steel sector has sent ripples across the region’s export community: a...

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Overseas Macro Environment  The U.S. government's preliminary benchmark revision has unveiled significant weakness in the labor market....

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Fresh data from Eurostat reveals a striking trend: stainless steel slab imports from Indonesia to the EU are on pace to exceed  240,000...

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